To celebrate Vikings Live, we have replaced our Roman alphabet with the runic alphabet used by the Vikings, the Scandinavian ‘Younger Futhark’. The ‘Younger Futhark’ has only 16 letters, so we have used some of the runic letters more than once or combined two runes for one Roman letter.

School exhibition sessionViking Voyages

Friday 16 May,10.00–14.00
British Museum
Free, booking essential

Phone +44 (0)20 7323 8181Ticket Desk in Great Court

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For Key Stage 2 students.

Explore the seafaring life of a Viking.

This session will begin with time in the exhibition Vikings: life and legend, where your students will work as historians finding out about the Viking world. Students will meet a number of facilitators who will encourage them to use the objects as a source of primary evidence before taking part in a final plenary in a Clore Education Centre lecture theatre. Lunch slot included.